Texas Chain Saw Day
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Shocking, lurid and completely unapologetic in its brutality, director Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE completely changed cinema following its debut in 1974. The film follows five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside who fall prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family. Violent, confrontational, and viscerally realistic, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on the politically and socially tumultuous America of the 1970s. Facing a storm of controversy, censorship, and outcry throughout its troubled release, this masterpiece of horror has stood the test of time to become a landmark motion picture and cultural milestone - most recently being named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress - while also establishing many of the tenets of what would become the gore/slasher/splatter genre. The screening will feature an exclusive sneak-peak, first-look at the forthcoming documentary CHAIN REACTIONS. This documentary, directed by Alexandre O. Phillipe, traces the incredibly diverse and lasting cultural impact of Texas Chain Saw Massacre since its release in 1974, and features in-depth interviews with Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.
Cast
- Marilyn Burns
- Allen Danziger
- Paul A. Partain
- William Vail
- Teri McMinn
- Edwin Neal
- Jim Siedow
- Gunnar Hansen
- John Dugan
- Robert Courtin
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This polarizing horror experience leaves audiences either screaming along with protagonist Sally or reaching for the volume button, with viewers praising its claustrophobic intensity and bold imagery while simultaneously being overwhelmed by 37 minutes of non-stop screaming. The film delivers an authentically disturbing atmosphere that's as irritating as it is terrifying, culminating in Sally's iconic blood-soaked, hysterical laughter finale.
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- Oct 12, 2015
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH" AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH H !!!!!! HHH H AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! AHHH!! AHHHHH!!! HHH H…
YI JIANOct 2, 2020maybe if the planets weren’t in retrograde this wouldn’t have happened
aliyahOct 22, 2020You may see it as a story of teenagers being dismembered by a chain saw killer but I see it as a like minded family trying to give their ailing grandfather one last shot to do the thing he loves best ❤️
Ethan Colburn - Oct 20, 2020
southern hospitality
WesMar 21, 2018sally: *screams at full volume for the last 37 minutes straight of this film* me: damn b*tch it really do be like that sometimes
kyleMar 18, 2021this happened to me once
alor - Oct 10, 2021
Men will say nobody's gonna hurt ya and then whack you with a broom a minute later
dselwynsJul 23, 2020you ever watch a film that just makes you feel so thankful that the volume-down button exists
liam fOct 31, 2020Easily one of my top horror films if not my favorite. The imagery is never not bold and horrific. The atmosphere is so claustrophobic and tense, sometimes it’s even irritating. Which makes for a consistently tense experience where, no matter how disturbing things might…
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- Breeze likedThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre
I watched this half asleep on someone’s floor idk where but it was so scary and cold I just woke up to heads getting sawed off that was a core memory
emz dislikedThe Texas Chain Saw Massacreummmmmm it was definitely a movie
Damien dislikedThe Texas Chain Saw MassacreI get the cult following but I fell asleep a couple times. Only “good” stuff is the last 10-15 min maybe. And it’s not that good. Don’t know why leatherface is a cult icon. He doesn’t compare to Freddy and Jason and myers at all. I would assume because not supernatural. Meh
- Dyl lovedThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre
A absolute classic a must watch for everyone great for it’s time along with a low budget it holds up incredibly well and overall a classic
Murph is "meh" onThe Texas Chain Saw MassacreRating: 5/10 I can see why it’s considered a classic. Solid idea for plot and macabre. This movie definitely walked so others could run. However it is definitely a low budget 70s movie…gore is left up to the imagination and many slow scenes could be cut out entirely. Definitely would have enjoyed…
Steven Erick dislikedThe Texas Chain Saw MassacreHow this has spawned several sequels and remakes is beyond me.
- Emma is "meh" onThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre
She runs so slow oml
GENAI likedThe Texas Chain Saw MassacreI’m not gonna lie… I didn’t… LOVE it. I expected it to be scarier, and apart from the 4 moments where Mr. Leather killed and was very fast/efficient for such a large man, it honestly wasn’t. The characters were pissing me off but I loved Sally’s willingness to hop out of windows-
Jennifer Facenda lovedThe Texas Chain Saw MassacreThis is my favorite movies of all time. Watched it for the first time a couple of years ago, and it really got me into horror and movies in general. No film invokes such a visceral reaction in me such as this one. Poor Mitchell had to sit through this one with me tonight.
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Metacritic
As much as any surrealist arthouse flick, Texas Chain Saw feels like a nightmare made real, an inescapable but entirely authentic vision of pure hell.
Tom Huddleston
Time Out
No other later horror film – and certainly none of the many sequels to this one – captured so well the strangeness of living through a long night of evil and emerging into bright sunlight, with its tacit promise of restorative justice or virtue, or just normality.
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
The film has outstanding sound effects, art direction and editing, and a clutch of effective, if necessarily, one-note performances.
Kim Newman
Empire
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